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To: rockrr

The Union army didn’t only make the Confederate Army pay, they took it out on the women and children, too. They stole their food and livestock, tore up their fields, and burned their homes and left them to starve. They did other things even worse. I don’t care what you say, the Confederates didn’t fight their women and children. Sherman was ruthless and cruel. Its been well documented. Slavery was wrong and maybe the war needed fighting but they could have extended the same courtesy to the southern women and children that the south did to their women and children. After all, enemy or not they were still fellow Americans.


150 posted on 09/27/2010 4:23:33 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: beckysueb

You don’t care what I say.


153 posted on 09/27/2010 4:30:54 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now)
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To: beckysueb
The Union army didn’t only make the Confederate Army pay, they took it out on the women and children, too. They stole their food and livestock, tore up their fields, and burned their homes and left them to starve.

And I guess you think the Confederate army were perfect gentlemen. Adelia Craigmiles Knox of Lafayette, Georgia had this to say of the passage of Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee:

"When the army moved on there was not a growing thing left on the place."

Sounds like your precious Confederate army waged a little war on the women and children of Lafayette Georgia. They were no good at stopping Sherman's army but they sure could strip clean any Dixie farm unfortunate to be in their path. Gone with the wind! hahaha

218 posted on 09/27/2010 9:42:16 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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